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CNN Election Center yet to report McCain's claim that he "voted to condemn" the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terror group is false |
| Published: July 11, 2008, 7:21 pm |
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As Media Matters for America documented, on the July 9 edition of CNN Election Center, anchor Campbell Brown uncritically aired Sen. John McCain's false claim that he "voted to condemn" the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization "when a amendment was on the floor of the United States Senate." In fact, McCain did not vote on the amendment to which he was referring, the Kyl-Lieberman amendment. In an entry posted on CNN.com's Political Ticker blog at 5:30 p.m. ET on July 10*, Evan Glass and Kerith McFadden wrote that "McCain was in New York instead of being in the Senate chamber for the vote in question. The McCain campaign admits the error but points to their candidate's tough stance against the country President Bush once grouped into the 'axis of evil.' " Yet while CNN.com reported that the McCain campaign has admitted its error, the July 10 edition of CNN Election Center failed to do so, despite having aired McCain's falsehood. During the July 9 [ Full article ] |
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